Oh, by the way, Jimmy. Every time apt-get dist-upgrade's the kernel I subsequently reboot from the command line; hence I am running the latest kernel that GCE team makes available
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jose R R <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jimmy, I will try the gcutil resetinstance; looking at may GCE console > > https://twitter.com/Metztli_IT/status/447226775483858944/photo/1/large > > I think I may switch DNS to CloudFlare for resilience on this > instance. First time it happens (sigh) > > Thank you, Jeremy, as well. > > > Best Professional Regards > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: >> gcutil resetinstance is a reasonable idea. That is the equivalent of >> pressing a hard reset button on the system. Alternatively, gcutil >> deleteinstance and declining when asked about deleting the boot disk (or >> using --nodelete_boot_pd) is the equivalent of sending an ACPI power down >> signal (there is no equivalent signal for soft reboots) and freeing up the >> CPU, unreserved IP addresses, RAM, etc. >> >> Neither of these deletes your disk - the disk is called persistent disk for >> a reason. (The soon-to-vanish v1beta16 API offered scratch disks, but unless >> you're using a gcutil from before early December, you would have had to >> choose that API explicitly.) I've used both commands many times, including >> on critical instances. >> >> If you do ever delete and re-add the instance, you can give gcutil >> addinstance a flag like --disk=<old instance name>,boot instead of >> specifying an image to boot off the existing disk. >> >> Also, if you apt-get upgraded without rebooting, the kernel is the same one >> you first booted with. However unless something got killed via OOM, I can't >> see how the old kernel's memory leak would be related. >> >> Yes, I meant #debian-cloud on IRC. (As Jeremy said, that's irc.debian.org, >> also known as OFTC.) I'm Hydroxide there. >> >> Heading to sleep soon - it is indeed evening here and I'm on an unusually >> early schedule this week. >> >> Good luck! >> >> - Jimmy >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Jose R R <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jimmy- >>> >>> Sorry I did not think anybody would reply as quickly on a Friday >>> evening (Calironia). >>> >>> I had not experienced any issues since approximately 2 months ago that >>> I started the instance with Salt/Libcloud as a proof of concept. >>> Accordingly the image has been upgraded since then with apt-get >>> update/dist-upgrade. >>> >>> gcutil getserialportoutput ouputs a long output and at the end I get >>> copious output with tail related to the database, example: >>> >>> Mar 21 20:23:31 my-google-instance mysqld: 0 [0, 0, 0, 0] , >>> Mar 21 20:23:43 my-google-instance mysqld: ibuf aio reads:140321 >>> 20:23:43 [Warning] Aborted connection 58427 to db: 'my-sql-db' user: >>> 'my-self' host: 'localhost' (Unknown error) >>> Mar 21 20:25:49 my-google-instance mysqld: 140321 20:25:49 [Warning] >>> Aborted connection 58378 to db: 'my-sql-db' user: 'my-self' host: >>> 'localhost' (Unknown error) >>> >>> I was going to try gcutil resetinstance to reboot my instance but I am >>> not sure if it will wipe out my served content. >>> >>> >>> Best Professional regards. >>> >>> PS. #debian-cloud irc? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi Jose, >>> > >>> > No, us-central1-b should be working. Does gcutil getserialportoutput >>> > (or >>> > the equivalent web console view) show anything informative? Might be an >>> > OOM, >>> > a kernel panic, really any of the possibilities for a normal system. >>> > >>> > I won't be awake many more hours, but I can briefly discuss in >>> > #debian-cloud >>> > if you'd like. >>> > >>> > One thing to note is that a memory leak in the virtio-scsi driver got >>> > fixed >>> > in the Debian 7.4 kernel, and is also absent from the backports kernel. >>> > Either of these is recommended over older Debian kernels. >>> > >>> > We released our 7.4 images earlier this week, though of course apt-get >>> > upgrade would have gotten you that sooner, and the backports image >>> > already >>> > offered a newer kernel partly for this reason. >>> > >>> > - Jimmy >>> > >>> > On Mar 21, 2014 7:10 PM, "Jose R R" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Niltze [hi!]- >>> >> >>> >> I am running a small Debian instance on GCE on us-central1-b (from >>> >> another email account than this one) and was wondering if there it's >>> >> undergoing maintenance; otherwise I think it is being being DoS DDoS >>> >> since >>> >> >>> >> gcutil nor ssh are not able to connect; nor the web server displays >>> >> anything (loading...) >>> >> >>> >> If anyone from GCE reads this I'd appreciate your input. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Best Professional Regards. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Jose R R >>> >> http://www.metztli-it.com >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> NEW Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1! 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